The hole in the Conran camera is surrounded by an array of somewhere between 10 and 20 small image sensors (Photo: Darren Russell)

All of the manual settings of the Conran camera can be controlled by physical controls, rather than the screen-based menus in which they are nowadays often hidden (Photo: Darren Russell)

The Conran camera has a large aperture through the center of the camera for framing shots in a more natural way (Photo: Darren Russell)

The Conran design firm was recently asked to re-imagine an everyday item by BBC Future, its designers picked the digital camera, and the resulting concept certainly is different (Photo: Darren Russell)

The Conran design firm was recently asked to re-imagine an everyday item by BBC Future. Its designers picked the digital camera, and the resulting concept certainly is different. The Conran camera does away with the typical protruding lens and instead features a large hole through the middle, surrounded by an array of small camera sensors. It also lacks an LCD monitor and is instead designed to wirelessly connect to a smartphone.